Bodily Relativity: The body-specificity of language and thought

Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1258-1259

  Casasanto, Daniel ^a,b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Action; Concepts; EEG; Emotion; fMRI; Handedness; Language; Metaphor; rTMS

Indexed keywords

ACTION; CONCEPT; CONCRETE DOMAINS; EMOTION; FMRI; HANDEDNESS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE AND THOUGHTS; METAPHOR; RTMS;

EID: 84857925949     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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